<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hello</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The schedule for ICANN 53 in Buenos Aires 18-25 June 2015 has been posted <a href="http://buenosaires53.icann.org/en/schedule-full" class="">http://buenosaires53.icann.org/en/schedule-full</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have just uploaded the agenda for our Constituency Day Meeting <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/NCUC+Buenos+Aires+Meeting+2015-06-23" class="">https://community.icann.org/display/gnsocouncilmeetings/NCUC+Buenos+Aires+Meeting+2015-06-23</a> </div><div class="">Any agenda tweaks will be indicated there. In the meanwhile, I reproduce the current agenda below. Please note that we have two rather meaty discussions in the afternoon on the GNSO Review (and the treatment of NCUC therein) and the .sucks brouhaha for which some background reading is advisable to get fully clued into the conversations. On the latter, I’m not sure whether we’ve ever had visitors from the Business Constituency and the Intellectual Property Constituency before, so this should be fun. I’m please they were willing to enter the lion’s den. I assured them that while we may be disagreeable we won’t bite :-) </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bill</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">————————</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><b class="">NCUC Constituency Day @ ICANN 53, Buenos Aires</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Tuesday, 23 June 2015 - 09:30 to 13:00 </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(50, 51, 51);" class=""><span style="color: #000000" class="">Room </span>Retiro C</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(59, 115, 175);" class=""><span style="color: #000000" class="">Remote participation information at </span><a href="http://buenosaires53.icann.org/en/schedule/tue-ncuc" class="">http://buenosaires53.icann.org/en/schedule/tue-ncuc</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><b class="">Agenda </b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><b class="">I. 9:30 – 10:00 Organizational Matters</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">1. Participant introductions & adoption of agenda, AOB</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">2. Misc. Updates & ICANN 53 events of particular interest </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">3. ICANN 54 @ Dublin Event?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">4. AOB</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><b class="">II. 10:00-10:30 Brief Operational Visits</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><i class="">Joining us will be: </i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">10:00 - 10:15 Sandra Hoferichter, Chair of the ICANN Academy Working Group</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">10:15 - 10:30 Chris Gift, VP for Digital Services, ICANN</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><i class="">Background Information:</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(50, 51, 51);" class=""><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-s-roadmap-for-community-digital-services" class="">https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-s-roadmap-for-community-digital-services</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/Improve/At-Large+ICANN+Academy+Ad-Hoc+Working+Group" class="">https://community.icann.org/display/Improve/At-Large+ICANN+Academy+Ad-Hoc+Working+Group</a> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><b class="">10:30ish – 11:00 ICANN coffee break</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><b class="">IV. 11:00 – 12:00 The GNSO Review and Constituency Structural Issues</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">11:00 - 11:30 Internal discussion</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">11:30 - 12:00 <i class="">Joining us will be: </i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Richard Westlake and Colin Jackson of Westlake Governance (the consultant for the GNSO Review)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><i class="">Background Information:</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Overview of the process (website out of date)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/GR2/GNSO+Review+2014+Home" class="">https://community.icann.org/display/GR2/GNSO+Review+2014+Home</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Letter from the Noncontracted Parties House to the ICANN Board</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/ncph-participants-to-icann-board-16jan15-en.pdf" class="">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/ncph-participants-to-icann-board-16jan15-en.pdf</a> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Draft v1 of the Report (download at bottom)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><a href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-review-dt/msg00311.html" class="">http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-review-dt/msg00311.html</a> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">NCUC response to Westlake’s working text released during the Singapore meeting (download at bottom)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><a href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-review-dt/msg00287.html" class="">http://forum.icann.org/lists/gnso-review-dt/msg00287.html</a> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><b class="">V. 12:00 – 13:00 The .sucks Brouhaha and its Wider Implications </b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><i class="">Joining us will be:</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">12:00 - 12:30 Phil Corwin, GNSO Councilor for the Business Constituency and Founding Principal, Virtualaw LLC</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">12:30 - 13:00 Gregory S. Shatan, President of the Intellectual Property Constituency</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><i class="">Background Information:</i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Shatan/IPC letter, “ICANN Requested to Immediately Halt .SUCKS Predatory Registration Scheme Designed to Exploit Trademark Owners” (27.03.2015)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/shatan-to-atallah-27mar15-en.pdf" class="">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/shatan-to-atallah-27mar15-en.pdf</a> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">ICANN letter to Shatan/IPC (09.04.2015)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/atallah-to-shatan-09apr15-en.pdf" class="">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/atallah-to-shatan-09apr15-en.pdf</a> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">ICANN letters to the US Federal Trade Commission and the Canadian Office of Consumer Affairs (09.04.2015)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/jeffrey-to-ramirez-knubley-09apr15-en.pdf" class="">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/jeffrey-to-ramirez-knubley-09apr15-en.pdf</a> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Philip S. Corwin, “ICANN.WTF? FTC & OCA Asked Whether .SUCKS is a Law Breaker (Part I),” CircleID (14.04.2015)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150414_icann_dot_wtf_ftc_oca_asked_whether_sucks_is_a_law_breaker_part_i/" class="">http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150414_icann_dot_wtf_ftc_oca_asked_whether_sucks_is_a_law_breaker_part_i/</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Philip S. Corwin, “ICANN.WTF? FTC & OCA Asked Whether .SUCKS is a Law Breaker (Part I),” CircleID (15.04.2015)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150415_icann_dot_wtf_ftc_oca_asked_whether_sucks_is_a_law_breaker_part_ii/" class="">http://www.circleid.com/posts/20150415_icann_dot_wtf_ftc_oca_asked_whether_sucks_is_a_law_breaker_part_ii/</a> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Vox Populi’s lawyer’s letter to ICANN (11.05.2015)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><a href="http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015-05-11-Letter-to-ICANN-fr-Hosp-re-Vox-Populi.pdf" class="">http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015-05-11-Letter-to-ICANN-fr-Hosp-re-Vox-Populi.pdf</a> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class="">Federal Trade Commission letter to ICANN (27.05.2015)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;" class=""><a href="http://domainnamewire.com/wp-content/FTC-icann-response.pdf" class="">http://domainnamewire.com/wp-content/FTC-icann-response.pdf</a> </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 21px;" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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